In "A Worn Path", the main character called Phoenix, is an old lady going after a medicine needed by her beloved grandson found only in the city, which is far away from the country where they live.
She already knows the path since she has been doing the journey on a regular basis since her grandson got a bad throat sickness, needing the medicine to sooth his throat pain.
Phoenix goes through the pines, oak trees, a log laid to cross as a bridge, a barbed-wire fence, a cotton field withered for the winter and many other obstacles on her way, including some imaginary situations. Even so, she goes just fine and feels like she is in command everytime she faces a problem on her way in the country regions. As she gets into the city portion of the journey she sees and feels herself as a helpless old woman that couldn't even lace her shoes by herself and became mostly silent and noninteracting with the people or the around, almost hardly capable to explain the reason of her visit to the attendant that was trying to get any information about her need.
She has no easy part on the journey, since Phoenix’s obstacles are both natural and social as she moves from the country to the city (letter D.) facing different kinds of difficulties in each portion of the journey. In the country portion she domains her attitudes better but her old body can't keep up easily with her efforts, as in the city she just can't fit or feel comfortable neither appropriate so she finds herself in a big miss-interacting issue. Nevertheless she never gave up in neither situations.
